Improvement in burnlshing-tools for shoemakers



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EUGENE T. DUcHARME, or NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN BURNISHING-TOOLS FOR SHOEMAKERS.

Specilication forming part of Letters Patent No. 149,295, dated April 7, 1874 .application iiled February 23, 1814.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EUGENE T. DUCHARME,

of New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented a Combined Truck and Burnisher for Shoemakers use, of which the following is a specification:

Figure l is a longitudinal section of my combined truck and burnisher. Fig. 2 is a side view of the same. Fig. 3 is a transverse section of the same on the line c c, Fig. l. Fig. 4 is a, detail face view of a modied attachment to the same, and Fig. 5 an edge view of Fig. 4.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the gures.

The object of this invention is to vproduce in one instrument, and at one end thereof, all the appliances necessary for burnishing and creasing the soles and heels ot' boots and shoes, and also to make such instrument applicable to shoes or boots having various thicknesses of soles. My invention consists, in the first place, in making a sole creaser and burnisher with a longitudinally-adjustable and rotary creasing tool or truck, so that the same can be used for any thickness of sole, and readily adjusted for any other thickness, and turned when part of its edge has been worn; and in combining the same instrument, which can be used for creasing and burnishing the soles of boots and shoes, with and fitting it into an instrument which can be used for burnishing the heels of boots and shoes, and in forming on said heel-burnisher means for creasing the heels and for forming the heelseat beads. Thus I produce in one instrunient, and at one end of its handle, all the mechanism which it heretofore took several instruments to supply, and by this combination I attain the advantage of at once heating the sole creaser and burnisher and the heel creaser and burnisher, thus dispensing with the necessity of separately heating two or more instruments for one boot or shoe.

In the accompanying drawing, the letter A represents the handle of my improved instrument. The same is made of wood or other suitable material. To its end is iirmly secured the shank a of the heel-burnisher B, which heel-burnisher is corrugated in the customary manner, and made of metal to be readily heated and used, as usual. A cavity is formed in the shank of the heel-burnisher B for the reception of a sole creaser and burnisher, C.

This sole creaser and burnisher I prefer to make of cylindrical form, with a large ange, b, at its extreme outer end, and a smaller in ner flange, d, close to b. The cylindrical stem or main body of the sole burnisher and creaser C enters partly within the cavity provided for its reception in the shank of the heel-burnisher B, and from the said cylindrical stem of C projects into the shank a a prismatic rod or shank, e, which connects with a set-screw, j', that is introduced from that side of the shank a which is opposite the flange b. Another set-screw7 g, enters at the side of a against one of the sides of the prismatic shank e. Now, when it is desired to use the sole truck and burnisher C in the manner indicated in Fig. 1, such truck and burnisher is adjusted by the screw f farther in or out, to bring the iiange b to such a distance from the nearest point ofthe burnisher B that the edge of the sole to be burnished and creased will enter between such lange b and the body B, in the manner shown. The parts being heated, it is clear that, by proper manipulation, the edge of the sole will be burnished by the side of the truck O, and creased by the small ilange el. For a thicker sole, the screw f is turned to move the truck C farther out, and for a thinner sole, the ilange d is brought nearer to the body B by the same means, and thus the truck C may be used for burnishing and creasing soles of all thicknesses. For heel-creasing, a plate, D, is screwed to the burnisher l, and provided with a iiange, h, which enters the crease usually formed between the heel and the shank of the boot, while a smaller iiange, t', or projection for creasing the heel, is formed on the plate .I) above the flange h. The part is then used for creasing the heel, in the manner indicated at the upper portion of Fig. 2. Below the iange h a small groove, j, is formed in an extension, l, of the plato I), and the parts 1,3', and h can, when heatedT be used on the lower part of the heel, in the manner indicated in the lower portion of Fig. When it is desired to form a crease near the lower edge of the sole, I may attach a plate, E, to the burnisher B, where a plate, F, is, in

Fig. l, shown to be attached to said burnisher. The plate E, if used, is furnished with one or more projecting ribs, m, as indicated in Fig. 5, for acting on the sole in the desired manner. The stein e of the truck C is made prislnatio, as shown in Fig. 3, or attened on two or more sides, the screw g bearing against one ot the sides. When the screw is loosened, such stem e can be turned in its cavity together with the Whole truck G, so that if part of the flange d should have becoine blunt or dull by use, other parts, still sharp and in condition for use, can be brought into use, until the Whole circumference of the ange d has been used up.

I claim as my invention'- A cylindrical sole truck and creaser, C, combined with the set-screws f and g, and fitted through the heel-burnisher B, to be adjustable in said burnisher, and provided with the flanges b and d, substantially as and for the purpose described.

EUGENE T. DUCHARME.

Witnesses:

F. V. BRIEsEN, A. V. BRIEsEN. 

